CultureDale: Artist Showcase – Artist Talk and Q&A
24 July 2024
IOU Creation Centre, Dean Clough, Halifax
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IOU Creation Centre, Dean Clough, Halifax
FREE
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IOU Creation Centre presents
Showcase Artist Talk
Join us at the IOU Creation Centre for exclusive Artist Talks, hosted by our Creative Director, Richard Warburton. Discover the creative journeys and inspirations behind the CultureDale: Artist Showcase with insights from artists Rachel Hawthorn, Sue Walpole, and Georgia D’Silva.
Tickets for this event are FREE but please RSVP to hello@ioutheatre.org to reserve your place
Georgia D’Silva
IOU Artist in Residence 2024
A diorama of a home in Hebden Bridge
“I create small-scale dioramas, dealing with notions of memory and place. My work has assimilated dollhouse rooms, whilst being devoid of figures, asking the viewer to interact inquisitively and playfully. Time and time again, I am drawn to cardboard. The material has this sense fragility and transitoriness which mirrors the fleeting nature of the present that causes my brow to corrugate”.
Sue Walpole
Visual Artist, Giant Puppet Maker
The Salon – Curlew Sickle Moon
“The Salon is a natural evolution for me from classic lantern design using structure and shadows, bringing together soundscape, projected imagery and sculptural forms. Together these create an immersive experience of the coast to moorland journey Curlews make annually to lay their eggs – calling you into nature and questioning our footprints on the landscape”
Rachel Hawthorn
Artist, Death Doula, Shroud Maker
The Luddenden Shroud
“The Luddenden Shroud is a hand-felted woollen shroud along with a woven cradle crafted from foraged ivy, bramble, holly and willow. I have made the shroud for, and with, my friend Janet, as a soft, enfolding, earthy alternative to a traditional coffin”.
The shroud and accompanying film explore many issues and questions relating to place, nature, ecology, indigeneity, grief and belonging.
